Just How Is the Economy Doing? Ask a Pallet Manufacturer

CLEVELAND (May 11, 5:50 p.m. ET) — Makers of pallets, collapsible shipping containers and totes — used to ship all types of goods — have a first-hand view of the improving economy, they said at the NA2010 trade show.

Gat Ramon put it simply. “If people are buying more, you need to move more,” said Ramon, president of Cabka GmbH, a Stuttgart, Germany-based plastic pallet company that also runs North American molding plants in St. Louis and Toronto.